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title: I enty fer see no crab an' no oscher; en swimp, he no stay 'roun'. — Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings · tree and pragmatics
description: I enty fer see no crab an' no oscher; en swimp, he no stay 'roun'. Who acts: I, crab. A sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, III. Uncle Remus and the Savannah Darkey, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, III. Uncle Remus and the Savannah Darkey, sentence 19

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I enty fer see no crab an' no oscher; en swimp, he no stay 'roun'.

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**Who acts:** I, crab · **What happens:** see, roun · **To what, where:** crab

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This is a sentence of «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, III. Uncle Remus and the Savannah Darkey. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, crab), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2306:49:19
# text = I enty fer see no crab an' no oscher; en swimp, he no stay 'roun'.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	enty	enty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	fer	fer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
6	crab	crab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
9	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	10	det	_	_
10	oscher	oscher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	en	en	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	swimp	swimp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
16	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	17	det	_	_
17	stay	stay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	roun	roun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | present | I | no crab |  |  |  | a oscher and en swimp *obl:unmarked* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer crab=Stimulus |
| 2 | **roun** |  | crab |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings» by Joel Chandler Harris, Project Gutenberg book 2306 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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